2024-03-12 20:43:37
The Buenos Aires boxer Gustavo “Tito” Lemos expressed his intention to fight a “well-named” rival in a future fight for a Super lightweight world titleif it expires next April to the American Richardson Hitchins in a eliminatory.
“I always said that my dream is to fight with a well-known boxer. “It could be Devin Haney, Vasyl Lomachenko or George Kambosos,” he said. the native of Tres Arroyos, 27 years old.
Lemos, also known as the “Eléctrico”, will measure the Saturday, April 6 at the Fontainebleu Hotel in Las Vegas, United States, with Hitchinsundefeated in 17 appearances (7 fast track wins).
“I hope I have the chance to win next time and fight for the world title,” the boxer born in the Ruta 3 Sur neighborhood hoped, in statements to the Somos Télam site.
Lemos will have revenge for an International Boxing Federation (IBF) eliminator after the victory against the experienced Welshman Lee Selby, which he achieved in March 2022 at Luna Park, and which should have given him the ticket to face the Australian George Kambosos , combat that never happened.
“I was waiting for a long time, but it couldn’t happen, then I had a hand injury, they took me out of the IBF ranking and for 6 months I couldn’t hit, so I spent my time running, doing sit-ups and nothing else,” recalled the Buenos Aires native, also undefeated, but in 29 performances (19 wins by knockout).
“It was a pain because I am not very physical and I have a lot of boxing, it cut my legs”he added.
But the return of the Electric was overwhelming: on December 15, also on the Avenida Corrientes and Bouchard stage, he beat knockout of Javier Clavero from Córdoba in just 40 secondseven after two years of absence.
Now his rival will be Hitchins, who once belonged to the promotion firm run by the retired Floyd Mayweather. “He is tall, he has good leg mobility and very good school, so “We are going to wage war, try to cut off the ring and work there,” described the Argentine..
The imminent fight against Hitchins will be the first one outside the country that Lemos will keep. “Since the fight was confirmed, we started strong preparation, with a camp here in Buenos Aires and with sparring partners. Then we will go to Tres Arroyos and we will do the final stretch in the Federal Capital again,” he said.
“I am super happy, we are doing very well in training,” he considered during a break in preparation at the Argentine Boxing Federation (FAB).
“A nutritionist is helping me with nutrition, something that was always difficult for me, they are correcting me in my meals, they weigh me every other day and I have a strict diet. I always lost three or four kilos, I fought and then I gained five or six, now I try to stay in the category without losing strength,” he noted. the tresarroyense.
Lemos revealed that one of the confrontations that marked him the most took place in October 2018, when he defeated the Mexican Uriel Pérez in the tenth and final round, which earned him the Firpo award for the best fight of that year: “Halfway through the fight I thought it was going to be complicated, but thanks to the training I had we went stick by stick until round 10, and I won it because of the ball fan that I am. I suffered and learned a lot in that fightthen I started to improve my punching, I threw a lot of hands that hurt, but didn’t break, now I’m going forward.”
“Once I get in the ring I forget everything. The issue is going up, it makes me nervous,” acknowledged Lemos, who also indicated: “Once they give the pass, I concentrate completely. “Everything is erased except the rival and me”.
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